PRANCE in a Sentence
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20 example sentences for PRANCE, such as:
1. She was prancing along in her new outfit.
2. The horses of Marly, those neighing marbles, were prancing in a cloud of gold.
3. He was horrified at the thought of his son prancing about on a stage in tights.
4. She jumped on it, putting her arms round his neck, and he pranced along with her.
5. When her mare began to prance about, Cay shifted in her saddle and calmed it down.
2. The horses of Marly, those neighing marbles, were prancing in a cloud of gold.
3. He was horrified at the thought of his son prancing about on a stage in tights.
4. She jumped on it, putting her arms round his neck, and he pranced along with her.
5. When her mare began to prance about, Cay shifted in her saddle and calmed it down.
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Meanings and Examples of PRANCE
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prance
n. a proud stiff pompous gait
v. cause (a horse) to bound spring forward
Classic Sentence:
1 Next he rose on his hind feet and pranced around, in a frenzy of enjoyment, with his head over his shoulder and his voice proclaiming his unappeasable happiness.
2 ; and the way they laid on and pranced around the raft was grand to see.
3 And so, at last they came to the library, where she clapped her hands and pranced, as she always did when especially delighted.
4 I felt a little low in my mind as I sat up in my room after tea, and when the big, muddy, battered-looking bundle was brought to me, I just hugged it and pranced.
5 In an instant it reared up upon its hind legs with a snort of rage, and pranced and tossed in a way that would have unseated any but a most skilful rider.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
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Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER II. THE FLOWER OF UTAH
6 Great puddingy thighs in black pudding-cloth, or lean wooden sticks in black funeral stuff, or well-shaped young legs without any meaning whatever, either sensuality or tenderness or sensitiveness, just mere leggy ordinariness that pranced around.
7 She jumped on it, putting her arms round his neck, and he pranced along with her.
8 One day, as he went prancing down a quiet street, he saw at the window of a ruinous castle the lovely face.
9 Jo thought that was splendid, and resolved to be worthy of her knight, though he did not come prancing on a charger in gorgeous array.
10 The horses of Marly, those neighing marbles, were prancing in a cloud of gold.
11 You cannot think of humiliating me by prancing along by my side on that magnificent charger.
12 As he was finishing this work, the sound of horses prancing in the yard, and the wheels of a carriage shaking his window, attracted his attention.
13 He should come home on a prancing horse, dressed in fine clothes and shining boots, a plume in his hat.
14 Yet he approached them with great diffidence and none of his late mincing and prancing.
Example Sentence:
1 When her mare began to prance about, Cay shifted in her saddle and calmed it down.
2 Then in another village they started a dancing-school; but they didn't know no more how to dance than a kangaroo does; so the first prance they made the general public jumped in and pranced them out of town.
3 She was prancing along in her new outfit.
4 It's pathetic to see fifty-year-old rock stars prancing around on stage as if they were still teenagers.
5 He was horrified at the thought of his son prancing about on a stage in tights.
6 It was this: "Pretty thin -- as long a dream as that, without any mistakes in it!" What a hero Tom was become, now! He did not go skipping and prancing, but moved with a dignified swagger as became a pirate who felt that the public eye was on him.